Outstanding AIChE Student Chapter

Tenth Year in a Row for OSU 
 

AIChE National Headquarters recognized the OSU AIChE Student Chapter as "Outstanding" for their 2007-2008 school year activities.   This is a top 10% rating of all student chapters in the nation, which is based on student participation, programming activities, and the contribution of the chapter to the professional development of the students.  Our student chapter earned this recognition ten years consecutively, and frequently before that.  This is an outstanding record of sustained performance.  Our students appreciate the human and leadership aspects that complement the technical matter of engineering.

The photo shows the 2008 seniors in the graduation processional.  Good bye, and best wishes!   Although many were leaders in the chapter activities, we have great depth in the lower classes that became our new seniors, juniors, and sophomores.  And, our new freshmen class continues our tradition of outstanding qualifications.

The student chapter is fortunate to have an energetic and dedicated advisor, associate professor Dr. Sundar Madihally.  He won the college Halliburton Outstanding Young Teacher Award in 2006 and the OSU President’s leadership award in 2005.  We have also been very fortunate to have a record of outstanding faculty advisors to the chapter.  In 2001 Randy Lewis was named outstanding advisor in the US and in 1981, Jan Wagner. 

Students in all class levels vote for their officers.  This year the election dinner was at Hideaway Pizza.  The outgoing chapter president Aleisha McCabe and the incoming president, Daniel Meysing are shown in the middle of the photo.  Aleisha received the Deans Award as outstanding senior for the College, and Daniel is presently a nominee for the alumni association Seniors of Significance.

Students lead the chapter.  They plan and bring things to fruition. They develop themselves professionally by organizing field trips to companies, or bringing in speakers to talk about careers in chemical engineering.  They also have fun events such as picnics, a golf tournament, pizza night, dodge ball, and laser tag.  They support the community in a variety of activities including Christmas time Adopt-a-Family with the public schools, and their own ChemKidz team that brings the magic and awe of chemical engineering experiments to elementary school classrooms.  They support the department in many ways in hosting high school groups, tutoring, etc.  Finally, they play an active role in both the regional and national AIChE conference activities such as paper presentations, the chemical reaction powered car competition.

The entire department contributes to the environment that supports this extraordinary success of student leadership and honor for OSU.  We are grateful to our alumni and friends for providing financial support that enables the student activities.

The 15 Outstanding AIChE Student Chapters for the 2006-7 school year are:

Good company!  And emphasizing the honor, of the schools on this list, OK State has the longest consecutive recent string of Outstanding recognitions.